Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

When you hear the word 'Invietable' watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.